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Dec. 22, 1925- Y O. H. JUSTUS PURIFIER FOR GASOLINE SYSTEMS Filed June12. 1924 Ora I .Jus we,

. Patented Dec. 22, 1925.

UNITED STATES 1,566,328 PATENT OFFICE.

ORA H. JUSTUS, OF PARKEQSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA.

PURIFIER FOB GASOLINE SYSTEMS.

Application filed June 12, 1924. Serial No. 719,639,

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, ORA H. JUs'rUs, citizen of the United States,residing. at Parkersburg, in the county of Vood and State of .VestVirginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Purifiersfor Gasoline Systems, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates tocertain new and useful improvements inpurifiers for gasoline systems and pertains more particularly to animprovement on the bottle holder disclosed in my Patent No. 1,464,822,issued August 14, 1923.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a moresimplified and economical form of bottle holder and wherein but a singlepair of bolts and nuts are employed to secure the holder in position, asdistinguished from the two pairs of bolts and nuts disclosed in my saidpatent.

A further object of the present invention, is to provide a bottle holderwhich embodies similar complementary sections that may be formed fromthe same dies and which are supported by a single pair of bolts, wherebyupon disengagement of either bolt, the sections may be relatively swungapart about the other bolt as a pivot, thereby to enable the bottle tobe easily and quickly removed and replaced.

The invention has still further and other objects which will be laterset forth and manifested in the course of the following description.

In the drawings Figure 1, is a front elevation of the invention;

Figure 2, is a top plan view thereof;

Figure 3, is a side elevation, and

Figure 4, is a section on line 4-4 of Figure 1.

The bracket, which is of L-shape has its vertical member 1 formed withapertures 2 to receive fastenings for securing same to the dash of anautomobile beneath the hood thereof, while the horizontal part or table3 of the bracket is provided with nipples 4 and 5, nipple 4 constitutingthe inlet and nipple 5 the outlet, the latter leading to the carbureteror to the vacuum tank in the instance of vacuum systems. A fine meshstrainer 6 is connected to the nipple 5, which latter and the nipple 4are surrounded bywasher or gasket 7 that is engaged against the-underface of the table 3 and with the mouth of the bottle or container 8. Allof the above described parts are disclosed in my said patent, thepresentinvention relating particularly to the bottle holder, now to bedescribed.

A. pair of similar complementary bottle clamping sections 9 and 10 areemployed, which latter have substantially semi-circular central partsthat engage about the bottle neck and beneath the head 11 thereof. Thesection 9 has a lower eye 12 and an upper eye 13, while the section 10has an upper eye 14 seated upon and registering with eye 12 and a lowereye 15 registering with and supporting eye 13 of the clamp 9. The eyesare formed by reducing the width of the ends of the sections and thencurling or bending the reduced parts into substantially circular form.

Vertical suspension bolts 16 and 17 project through the registering eyes12 and 14 and 13 and 15 respectively and have their heads engaged withthe eyes 12 and 15 respectively while their threaded ends projectthrough the table 3 and are equipped with wing nuts 18, by tightening ofwhich, the upper end of the bottle neck is engaged, with the washer andthe latter tightly impinged against the under face of the table, therebysealing the mouth of the bottle against the ingress of air.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that by removal of either wing nut18 and subsequent removal of either bolt 16 or 17, the sections 9 and 10may be swung about the remaining bolt as a pivot or pintle, therebyenabling the bottle to be easily and quickly removed and replaced, whichremoval is periodically necessitated in order to cleanse the bottle ofthe accumulated sediment or dirt separated by the strainer from thegasoline in the passage of the latter through the bottle. I

The sections of the bottle clamps are similar in all respects and arethus interchangeable, enabling the same set of dies to be employed inmanufacture of the sections of the clamp.

The present invention thus enables cont. plete removal of the bottle bydisengagement of but one bolt, as distinguished from my formerinvention, wherein each of the two vertical bolts must be removed, andin the patent and inthe instance of applying a new bottle, the twohorizontal bolts must also be removed to permit the clamp to be appliedto a new bottle.

The bolts 16 and 17 thus function in a dual manner, namely they affordmeans of suspension of the clamp, and thereby the bottle, from thesupport and further afiord pintles about Which the clamp sections may beswung to release the bottle.

lVhat is claimed is:

A bottle holder comprising in combination with a support, a clampincluding sections formed to engage about opposite sides of the bottleneck and against the head thereof, an eye at each end of each section,the

eyes at adjacent ends of the sections being in register, and a pair ofbolts eXtending through the registering eyes at the respective clampends and through the support and having nuts thereon engaged With thesupport to clamp the bottle mouth against the support, the eyes beingformed so that upon removal of either bolt, the clamp sections may bepivotally swung about the remaining bolt as a pivot to release thebottle and While the remaining bolt remains in position to support theclamp.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

- ORA H. J USTUS.

